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Parumala Thirumeni.
Geevarghese Mar Gregorios died at Parumala in 1902, and people were coming to his tomb for healing within months. The Malankara church declared him a saint in 1947 — its own canonisation, of its own bishop, on its own authority, which was the point. The pilgrimage each November draws hundreds of thousands, Christian and not.
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